Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.